Well it's time for the obligatory award post of the year. I just tuned in right when the award presentation started, skipping the red carpet stuff. I quite enjoyed the La La Land themed opening, that was fun and that bit with Ryan Reynolds on top of the piano as Jimmy Fallon is impersonating Ryan …
Continue reading 2017 Golden Globe Awards: Thoughts on the Winners + Fave Moments of the Night
Written/Directed by: Damien Chazelle Runtime: 128 minutes Rarely did I respond so strongly to a film's tagline. In fact, I mostly barely notice them. Here's to the fools who dream… well, La La Land's tagline speaks to me in a profound way, as essentially, I am one of those fools. Unabashedly. Emma Stone plays Mia, an aspiring actress …
Hello all! It's been quite a whirlwind week for me, what with the TCFF gala on Thursday and also the MN filmmakers interviews on Saturday. But it was a good kind of busy and definitely excited for the 2016 TCFF lineup this year! One of the filmmakers I interviewed was Remy Auberjonois, whose film Blood …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup + Quick thoughts on ‘The Nice Guys’ (2016)
Almost 30 years ago Shane Black made a name for himself when he wrote the buddy cop action comedy hit Lethal Weapon. He instantly became one of the most sought-after writers in Hollywood and one of the highest paid too. But when a couple of the big action films he wrote (The Last Action Hero and …
Happy Tuesday everyone! Well, it's a three-day work week for me so technically today's already *Friday* for me, wahoo! 😀 I'll be taking a week blogging break as my hubby and I are flying to Arizona Thursday to hang out with an old friend of hours who moved there last year from MN. I'm also …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin + Trailer Spotlight: The Big Short
Welcome to FlixChatter's primary blog series! As is customary for this monthly feature, I get to post five random news item/observation/poster, etc. and then turn it over to you to share your take on that given topic. You can see the previous five-for-the-fifth posts here. I don't know if any of you noticed, but I missed …
Welcome to April everybody! I finally got my flip-flops out yesterday for the first time in ... well I can't even remember! Temperature actually reached 60˚F on Sunday! I saw a bunch of people in shorts either jogging or on their bikes. It's just a tease though as we'll be back in the 30s again tomorrow, complete …
Continue reading Monthly Roundup & Favorite Film of March 2014
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